Re: Strings and header reuse

2003-02-17 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Robert Spier wrote: documentation--I'll get started on it ASAP so we can make the changes quickly and get this out of the way once and for all. Famous Last Words!(tm) You mean: "GC quick note" One thing that might help the GC situation some. Since we've got mutable strings (yep, it's OK)

Re: Strings and header reuse

2003-02-17 Thread Robert Spier
> documentation--I'll get started on it ASAP so we can make the changes > quickly and get this out of the way once and for all. Famous Last Words!(tm) -R

Strings and header reuse

2003-02-17 Thread Dan Sugalski
One of the things that's been pending as a potential performance bottleneck is the use and reuse of string headers. Leo's been prodding me on this one, as it really needs addressing, either to canonicalize the current method of doing things or to put in place some alternate structure. For thos